Christian Martyrdom and the "Dialect of the Holy Scriptures": The Literal, the Allegorical, the Martyrological.
This paper seeks to test a venerable scholarly and popular commonplace: that the ideology of religious martyrdom is based upon and further reflects a literal or even hyper-literal interpretation of Scriptures. Through two test-cases from late antique Christian writings, Tertullian's scorpiace and Or...
| Publicado en: | Biblical Interpretation Vol. 17; no. 1/2; pp. 177 - 207 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2009
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